[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS as home serwer (NAT, private projects)

[Natxo Asenjo]

hi Krzysztof,

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Krzysztof Grzempa <grzempek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Cheers guys,
>
> I'm planning to build my own server at home for multiple purposes (my
> projects, home NAS etc). I'm planning to use zones to separate WAN access
> server (www hosting, git and svn repos, email maybe..) and SAN
> functionalities for LAN only access.
> Now, i'm huge fan of Illumos. I used to work with Solaris 8 to 11, and i
> really enjoy it. I wish to use ZFS as the best storage solution, but what
> concern me most is availability of technologies that i'm going to use. For
> WAN purposes I need apache2, php5, mariadb, python (at least 2.7),git, svn,
> and maybe fish shell ;) . For my NAS, I need samba, nfs, ftp, DLNA
> [mediatomb, serviio] (sharing video to TV directly).
> AFAIK and read on the net, probably every of those technologies are doable
> on OmniOS, but the problem is time spent on installing, solving problems
> etc.
> Of course, there is always the linux solution, but i would like not go
> there as Illumos has may better storage (ZFS on linux sucks IHMO)
> Has anyone got expierience in setting up such stack on OmniOS? (or any
> other Illumos distro?) Problems? Advices?
>
>

 I run a microserver at home that does NFS/cifs, dlna (serviio in the past,
pldna now), I use crashplan for backups to the cloud. I use it for testing
stuff in zones a lot as well with the stacks you mention and others. I
don't use samba, the cifs server is very reliable and easy to use, and now
we have smb2 in it. I don't use ftp either, so I cannot comment on that,
although I vaguely remember talk about removing it because it was removed
from illumos.

The only thing I cannot do is kvm because that is not available for amd
cpus, but that is not really a big deal. I got a nuc from work to use it as
hypervisor (esx/kvm) and use the omnios box as storage datastore for the
vms. Works great too.

Not much to say, it works very well, updates/upgrades are easy and work. An
omnios box is a great home server. But if you are not willing to spend some
time learning how things work in solaris/illumos then maybe the linux
solution is better suited for you. It is a different system after all, lots
of things are similar but others differ.

HTH,

--
Groeten,
natxo
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